The subject of colorism can be taboo, as some see it as divisive in the push for racial justice. The cruelty of colorism is that it recapitulates social rejection and exclusion based on race into a hierarchy based on skin color. Just as a white scholar might shy away from talking about racism and the ways in which she benefits from systemic racism, not many Black scholars who have investigated race and technology have focused on colorism. I wondered if that lack was because some of the leading Black voices, on the privileged end of colorism, did not see it as a topic worthy of discussion, were
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